{"id":15,"date":"2016-06-22T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T00:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2016-07-02T19:15:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T23:15:41","slug":"the-nickel-quiz-1-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/the-nickel-quiz-1-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nickel Quiz #1: Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recall my music podcast, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/suitcasefullofdimes.blogspot.com\">Suitcase Full of Dimes<\/a><\/em>, but I haven&#8217;t put a new episode out in a very long time. Initially, the intention of this blog was to continue the podcast. However, plans changed, time continued to move in a forward direction, and suddenly it was five years later.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I&#8217;ll be using this blog to periodically post a music quiz of some sort. <em>Periodically<\/em>, because, besides my day job, I&#8217;m also working as the editor-in-chief of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpasquinade.com\">National Pasquinade<\/a><\/em> (e)magazine, which can be very time-consuming. I need more sleep.<\/p>\n<p>This first installment features five sets of lyrics that begin each song in question.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring is on the honor system (no Googling):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Correct Artist: 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Correct Song Title: 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Maximum Score: 10 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Home in the valley<\/em> \/ <em>Home in the city<\/em> \/ <em>Home isn&#8217;t pretty<\/em> \/ <em>Ain&#8217;t no home for me<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I\u2019ve got sunshine on a cloudy day<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I never thought it would happen<\/em> \/ <em>With me and the girl from Clapham<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I was searchin&#8217; on a one-way street<\/em> \/ <em>I was hopin&#8217; for a chance to meet<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Here come Johnny singing oldies, goldies<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[Difficulty: \u266b\u00a0 \/\u00a0 Easy like a Sunday morning]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cBurnin\u2019 For You\u201d (originally by Blue \u00d6yster Cult)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy Girl\u201d (originally by The Temptations)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUp the Junction\u201d (originally by Squeeze)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSweet Talkin\u2019 Woman\u201d (originally by Electric Light Orchestra)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWalk of Life\u201d (originally by Dire Straits)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Thanks for playing. Stay tuned for more quizzes, coming soon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recall my music podcast, Suitcase Full of Dimes, but I haven&#8217;t put a new episode out in a very long time. Initially, the intention of this blog was to continue the podcast. However, plans changed, time continued to move in a forward direction, and suddenly it was five years later. Instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/the-nickel-quiz-1-beginnings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nickel Quiz #1: Beginnings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nickelquiz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}